Beau death
By: Peter Lovesey
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: Peter Diamond series -- [17]
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780751570670
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Death and burial; Murder; Police; Investigation; Fiction
Description: A wrecking ball crashes through the roof of a terraced cottage in Bath and exposes a skeleton in eighteenth-century clothes. Can these possibly be the remains of Beau Nash, the so-called King of Bath, whose body is said to have ended up in a pauper's grave? Peter Diamond, the city's most experienced detective, is ordered to investigate, but grappling with historical events causes ructions in his team until everyone is diverted by a modern killing during a fireworks display on the Royal Crescent lawn. But Beau Nash refuses to be ignored and when astonishing new facts emerge about the case, Bath's history is rewritten and mysteries ancient and modern are fused in a devastating climax.